Castine, OH
How exposed is Castine to wildfire?
USFS scores Castine at the 1st national percentile for wildfire risk to structures (among the lower wildfire-risk places nationally), a figure built from 104 real buildings rather than raw vegetation cover. (Source: USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities methodology.)
Fire likelihood alone (USFS's burn-probability figure) ranks Castine at the 1st national percentile — 0 points above its risk-to-structures score, a gap driven by how much is actually built there.
Where Castine's buildings actually sit
79.8% of Castine's 104 buildings sit in USFS's Minimal exposure zone, with only 20.2% rated Direct — risk here comes from regional burn probability more than proximity to burnable vegetation at the structure itself.
Where Castine ranks
Castine's risk sits at a similar level relative to Ohio (6th percentile statewide) as it does nationally (1st) — this place isn't unusual for its own state either way. Among the 31,521 US communities USFS scores, Castine ranks 31,179 for wildfire risk (1 is highest) and 28,859 by building count (1 is largest). Within Ohio alone, it ranks 1,180 of 1,264 places by risk. See the full county-by-county picture for Ohio on its state page.
Castine and the insurance market
Castine's low rating (1st percentile nationally) sits outside the range where wildfire risk alone reshapes an insurance market — still, a homeowner here loses nothing by comparing rates.
What would actually reduce this score
Castine's 79.8% Minimal-exposure share means structure-level hardening matters less here than it would elsewhere — still worth the low-cost basics, per the home-hardening guide.
More on how this number was built
Every one of the two percentiles behind Castine's 31,179-place national rank traces to USFS's Wildfire Risk to Communities dataset — see the methodology guide. For more on what minimal exposure implies beyond Castine, see the exposure-zones guide.